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Students and adults took turns praising each other and pointing out their positive traits Tuesday afternoon inside the multipurpose room at Cruickshank Middle School.
This one-on-one cheerleading session was part of Challenge Day, a workshop aimed at providing students with positive self-concepts and reducing violence and bullying.
Rep. Dennis Cardoza is caught in the middle of the controversial endgame for health care legislation.
As early as today, the Merced Democrat and others on the quietly powerful House Rules Committee will essentially construct the bill. Equally important, the 13-member panel will craft voting procedures that could have profound political consequences in November.A label attached to a YouTube video about UC Merced students' recent push for a Chicano Studies minor warned students that watching it might cause uncontrollable laughter.
But some UC Merced students aren't laughing.Merced Irrigation District's board of directors on Tuesday passed its pared-down $70 million 2010 budget and announced a tentative start to the irrigation season for March 29.
It's official. You can add Santa Cruz and the Surf City Vintners to the list of walking wine tasting routes. This would be wine-walk No. 5. Can you remember the first four? We happened onto this area last year while tracking down the new Bonny Doon Winery tasting room and restaurant. Having "doon-sized," Bonny Doon Winery moved into this industrial-chic area on the west side of Santa Cruz on Ingalls Street. The tasting room and adjacent Cellar Door Café are quite impressive. We returned for a second visit and decided that this location definitely qualifies for a walking wine-tasting route.
FRESNO -- A series of drenching storms has replenished many of California's reservoirs, freeing up more water for parched farms and cities throughout the state, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Tuesday.
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A 39-year-old man was found shot to death in his Santa Rita Park home near Dos Palos -- and Merced County sheriff's investigators have launched a homicide investigation.
A label attached to a YouTube video about UC Merced students' recent push for a Chicano Studies minor warned students that watching it might cause uncontrollable laughter.
But some UC Merced students aren't laughing.
ATWATER -- For several years, Atwater's Police Department has overspent its overtime budget, prompting one city councilman to ask, "Does the city need more officers?"
Surprisingly, the answer from Chief Richard Hawthorne is no.LIVINGSTON -- The city's newest planning commissioners are young, male and educated.
A prominent national environmental organization is making good on its threat to try to stymie Richard Pombo's attempt to return to Congress.
